tessellation (i.e., you can safely re-model your kitchen floor with hexagonal-shaped tiles because you won't have any void space between the tiles when you are finished--not true for all other higher-n, n >= 7, polygons). Each cell of the heatmap is coloured and the shades of colour represent some kind of relationship of the value with the dataframe. before mapping to colors using cmap. Here we use a marginal histogram. list of available scales, call matplotlib.scale.get_scale_names(). response variable z will simply be a linear function of the features: z = x - y. In my data, there are lots more than the 500 values available in the area of high interest; whereas in the low-interest-area, there are not even 200 values in the total grid; between the graphic boundaries of x_min and x_max there are even less. You can add the z values as text using the text_auto argument. I would use matplotlib's pcolor/pcolormesh function since it allows nonuniform spacing of the data. In what context did Garak (ST:DS9) speak of a lie between two truths? 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